After I deployed the image to my server using the same ImageX utility, and as soon as I started the server BOOM, got a startup error “BOOTMGR MISSING”

To fix this issue, I started my server using a WinPE CD to the Windows Pre Installation Environment, and typed the following command

BCDBOOT C:\Windows 

Restart the server

That fixed the issue

One easy way to solve this is Open a new browsing session. To do this

On the Internet Explorer window, click File => and then click New Session

This will enable you to start a new browsing session in which you will be able to use different Live ID’s.

This is what I have been waiting for quite some time now an official version of Windows 8 to try it out. After they released the Developer Preview Pre-beta version of Windows 8 yesterday at the BUILD conference I managed to download the ISO.

Since it was a Pre-Beta I started to install on top of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V machine ( I know the touch features – but something I want to sacrifice until later)

I created a new hyper-V virtual machine and started to install and it was almost the same as a Windows 7 installation except for the Windows 7 starting splash screen being replaced with another (refer screen shot below)

Here you go!

Loading Files

The changed splash screen from Windows 7

Language Settings

Installation Confirmation

Setup is Starting

Installation Option

Disk Selection

Installation Progress

Restarting

Setting up registry for the fist time and first time only

Preparing to load

Preparing the attached hardware devices

License Agreement

Initial startup and configuration

Personalizing – Computer Name

Setup Option – I selected “Express”

Creating the first User Account

Finalizing

Loading User

Preparing PC

Icons “Tiles” which can be clicked

More tiles and icons

Desktop (revamped start button)

Ribbon enabled Windows Explorer

Built in Internet Explorer 10

My Computer

System Properties

Hover over start button

Other settings accessed through desktop settings

WOW… isn’t this mind blowing? Awesome stuff.. stay tuned.. I am to explore more and try this on my slate (reason why I was waiting till later)

This was announced during the ongoing BUILD conference which started yesterday.

As soon as Opened PowerShell and typed the path to the PS1 file and press enter, I got an error as shown below

Which says “File <filepath> cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get- help about_signing" for more details.”

If you get this error, don’t panic by default PowerShell is designed like this for security reasons, The Execution Policy which is in Windows PowerShell is set to Restricted which means none of the scripts will run (even if you write with your user credentials).

In Windows PowerShell type Get-ExecutionPolicy to verify

In order to be able to run scripts using Windows PowerShell type Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

This would enable to run script using PowerShell on your computer

One of the requirements for Hyper-V is that it requires a 64-bit system that has Second Level Address Translation (SLAT). This is a feature that the current processors comes along with.

How do we check whether our existing systems/processors support this feature? this is the ultimate question

According to this blog Intel and AMD have different types of SLAT, Intel calls this Enhanced Page Tables (EPT) and AMD calls it as Nested Page Tables (NPT).

Microsoft Sysinternals has a tool called Coreinfo which can be downloaded here, using this tool we can view whether our processors support either one of EPT or NPT depending on the processor make.

Once you download the Coreinfo, extract the software to your C: drive. Open command prompt and navigate C:\ and type Coreinfo.exe –v

This command will give you whether your processor supports EPT or NPT 

There is a funny video in YouTube which I came across

Mostly, what we do is virtualize the newly released products and test it out, but the common problem most of us face is that to have a descent virtualization solution such as hyper-v, we are compelled to install Windows Server as the base operating system.

I have a Lenovo W520 with a Core i7 vPro and 16GB of RAM and I run Windows Server 2008 R2 as my base OS, purely because I need to run Hyper-V. The Biggest problem I face is that once I enable Hyper-V, I cannot hibernate or put my Lenovo Notebook to sleep.

Hold on.. Microsoft just released a blog post on their Windows 8 Engineering Blog that Windows 8 will support Hyper-V on it. This is something super cool and most of the IT Pros out their will love this for sure. The best part is that hibernation/Sleep ill still be there even if you install Hyper-V on Windows 8 

The requirement is that you will need to have a Windows 8 x64bit OS and a minimum of 4GB of RAM.

For more information and for a video click Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/

The Blogs first post was posted by Steven Sinofsky who is the President of Windows and Windows Live Division yesterday.

On 1st of June 2011 Microsoft released a video which shows the preview of Windows 8 here

Click here to see videos of Windows 8 at the partner preview event in Taipei, Taiwan for COMPUTEX 2011 on June 2nd 2011.